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Horizon blue
Horizon blue is a colour name which is well remembered because it was used for the blue-grey uniforms of French metropolitan troops from 1915 through 1921.
This name for a shade of blue which refers to the indefinable colour which separates the sky from the earth, had been previously used in the world of fashion, and has been since then. It had also served as an emblem of political groups prevailing upon the army of the Great War.
The expression "horizon blue", certified to have been used in feminine fashion in 1884, was used afterward for hundreds of colour denominations in fashion, without making itself noticed.
The expression "horizon colour" is found in diverse descriptions in and after 1895. In 1899, the Journal des débats pointed out that the motor boats destined for the administrators of the Cayenne convict prison were "painted in horizon colour, to conceal them more easily".
The Répertoire de Couleurs published in 1905 by the Society of chrysanthemists, showed four tones of Horizon Blue, "colour which recalls the blue of the sky at the horizon", synonym of "Imitation Cobalt Blue".
The colour of the uniform of the French infantry became known as "horizon blue" in three steps:
In 1914, the French army was equipped with overcoats of a medium blue colour called "blued steel grey", and madder red trousers and kepis. This was a historic combination dating back to 1828. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Boer War attracted the attention of the general staffs of the great powers on the need to reform military clothing. A study made in 1892 determined that it was more difficult to shoot at a grey-blue target than at a red and blue one. Between 1903 and 1914, the French army tried a number of new uniforms of subdued colours: in 1902 the grey-blue uniform called "Boërs", in 1906 the beige-blue one, in 1911 the reseda uniform.
All these attempts at reforms failed as a result of the opposition of public opinion. French command finally chose blue-grey in November 1912 by decision in principle of Alexandre Millerand. On 26 May 1914 the High Council of War voted for the adoption of a cloth called "tricolour" obtained by a mixing of blue, white and red wool fibres. The law of 18 July 1914 prescribed the replacement of uniforms with ones where all items of which would be completely manufactured from a new cloth of this colour.
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Horizon blue
Horizon blue is a colour name which is well remembered because it was used for the blue-grey uniforms of French metropolitan troops from 1915 through 1921.
This name for a shade of blue which refers to the indefinable colour which separates the sky from the earth, had been previously used in the world of fashion, and has been since then. It had also served as an emblem of political groups prevailing upon the army of the Great War.
The expression "horizon blue", certified to have been used in feminine fashion in 1884, was used afterward for hundreds of colour denominations in fashion, without making itself noticed.
The expression "horizon colour" is found in diverse descriptions in and after 1895. In 1899, the Journal des débats pointed out that the motor boats destined for the administrators of the Cayenne convict prison were "painted in horizon colour, to conceal them more easily".
The Répertoire de Couleurs published in 1905 by the Society of chrysanthemists, showed four tones of Horizon Blue, "colour which recalls the blue of the sky at the horizon", synonym of "Imitation Cobalt Blue".
The colour of the uniform of the French infantry became known as "horizon blue" in three steps:
In 1914, the French army was equipped with overcoats of a medium blue colour called "blued steel grey", and madder red trousers and kepis. This was a historic combination dating back to 1828. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Boer War attracted the attention of the general staffs of the great powers on the need to reform military clothing. A study made in 1892 determined that it was more difficult to shoot at a grey-blue target than at a red and blue one. Between 1903 and 1914, the French army tried a number of new uniforms of subdued colours: in 1902 the grey-blue uniform called "Boërs", in 1906 the beige-blue one, in 1911 the reseda uniform.
All these attempts at reforms failed as a result of the opposition of public opinion. French command finally chose blue-grey in November 1912 by decision in principle of Alexandre Millerand. On 26 May 1914 the High Council of War voted for the adoption of a cloth called "tricolour" obtained by a mixing of blue, white and red wool fibres. The law of 18 July 1914 prescribed the replacement of uniforms with ones where all items of which would be completely manufactured from a new cloth of this colour.
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